Research professor, paleoceanographer...Hollywood collaborator?

James Gardner of the UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping and the Joint Hydrographic Center added an unusual credential to his CV this summer when he signed over rights to Warner Bros....

UNH Research: School Districts Continue to Restrain and Seclude Students with a Disability

Despite numerous states making policy revisions in recent years, students with disabilities in some school districts are restrained and secluded at an alarming rates, according to new research at the...

Roaring to the Finish

 Elinor Purrier ’17 is fast. Really fast. The sophomore distance runner placed first among women at the New England Cross Country Championships in Boston recently; she was named “women’s performer of...

Extension Enlists Allies to Battle Ash Tree Pest

Emerald ash borer larvae eat away new wood that supports tree growth. The shiny green, half-inch-long bugs on display one recent evening at Canterbury Shaker Village don’t sting or bite or carry a...

Get Puzzled!

Brendan Emmett Quigley '96 is a professional puzzle maker whose work appears regularly in The New York Times. Among other outlets, Quigley's puzzles also run in the The Los Angeles Times, The New...

Hackers Beware

This spring, some of the world's wiliest hackers gathered at UNH in an attempt to bring down powerful corporate networks. But no one on campus was worried; in fact, the hackers were welcomed. They...

Touchdown in the Ozone

One-hundred-foot-tall white pine by the Soucook River in Loudon, NH. Photo courtesy of Phil Browne. Until this past February, Barry Rock had no idea that over twenty years of scientific data gathered...

The Other Wildcats

Representatives of the University's thriving and diverse club sports scene gather at the wildcat sculpture. National champions. Regional gold medal-winners. Second-best player in the U.S. Wildcat...

Super Fan, Super Student

Lancaster, New Hampshire has a population of about 3,500. It’s where Peter Wilkinson ‘15 grew up, one of 86 seniors in his graduating class at the regional high school. A top student with so much...

Mastering Gravity

Adrienne Hill ’15 knows her way around the centrifuge.

Community Builder

Students relax at OMSA, aka "home-sa." l to r: Selena Tavarez, Ashley Gonzalez, and Andres Mejia. Take a photo of Andres Mejia ’14 in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) suite in the...

For Cows and CREAM: Never a Day Off

Brittany Kokoszka, a sophomore from Franklin, MA, meets a red-and-white milk cow in the herd at Saturday's open house for CREAM, a class of 25 UNH students who spend an academic year managing the 25-...

UNH Alumna, Undergraduate Receive Fulbright Grants

UNH graduate Sophia Burke ’13 of Belmont, Mass., and senior Spanish major Kelly Taveras ’14 of Manchester have received Fulbright grants for the 2014-2015 academic year. Burke, an environmental...

UNH Tapped to Help White House Task Force End Campus Sexual Assault

The University of New Hampshire is one of three universities tapped by a White House task force to do further research related to ending campus sexual assault.

Homelands

Jasmin Cesko’s earliest memories are of huddling in Bosnian bomb shelters in his mother’s arms while his father fought on the frontlines.

State of Flux

Lucie Lepine and Frankie Sullivan on the Moore Fields tower preparing for instrument installation. Photo by Andrew Ouimette, UNH-EOS. Since 2003, the Bartlett Experimental Forest in the White...

Step by Step

Amber Craft ’15 demonstrates how she measures muscle fatigue for her research project. Classmate Jimmy Golden ’14 volunteers as the test subject.

Solar-Powered Success

The Granite State Ventures team (L-R: Daniel Crowley, Professor Jeffrey Sohl, Bridget Fay, Cole Jaillet, Andrew Nelligan, Jeffrey Moore) and their award-winning TiltOne power point tracking system...

In His Father’s Footsteps

At home in the woods: Jake DeBow has an abiding love for the Granite State with its immediate access to the natural world and abundant wildlife. Photo by Victoria Forester Courtland

Mobile Safety App to Improve Campus Safety

The University of New Hampshire Police Department is taking a proactive step to help increase campus safety and communication with the launch of a new free mobile app this spring for UNH students,...

Goldwater Honors

Timothy Marquis '15

From Field to Classroom

Last summer, Stuart Grandy brought something unexpected back from Uganda: a new perspective on teaching soil chemistry.

Open Archaeology Day at UNH April 17

April 17th, 3:00 – 5:00p.m. Come and try your hand at flint knapping, atlatl throwing, and hand-forming pottery. There will also be prehistoric food to sample! Huddleston Hall, G16 (basement)

2014 Granite State Award and Honorary Degree Recipients Announced

Stella and Douglas Scamman will receive a 2014 Granite State Award from the University of New Hampshire at commencement May 17, 2014. A Stratham couple active in state politics and a Portsmouth-based...

Congratulations to 2014 Women's Commission Award Recipients

On March 27, the Women’s Commission celebrated 42 years of advocacy for policy change and programming that invites the full participation of women in education and employment at UNH.

Growing a Solution

Instructors and students of the African Plant Breeding Academy in Nairobi, Kenya. In the backyard gardens of sub-Saharan Africa, many people plant traditional strains of millet, teff, pigeon pea,...

Tools of the Trade

Breanna Edelstein ’14 (left) shares shots with Ericka Dupervil ’14 as they create a video for the 45-minute Film Festival in Tom Haines’s class. Journalism has gone online, and the way we read, view...

A Hit with Students

Fred Olsen '97 addresses a standing room only audience about his journey from UNH to the Front Office of the Boston Red Sox. What are the odds of a kid growing up in Durham, never pursuing baseball...

For Congolese Native, Education is Everything

Every student who comes to UNH has a story. Few carry with them memories of gunfire. Vinny Mwano does, faintly now because it’s been 14 years since the UNH junior left behind his homeland, the...

Spring Arrives at the UNH Greenhouse

The annual open house at the University of New Hampshire’s Macfarlane greenhouses, a popular rite of spring, is March 28-29, 2014 Usher in spring with a visit to the University of New Hampshire...

Patriot Act

UNH mechanical engineering professor Martin Wosnik (right) was honored with a Patriotic Employer Award from the New Hampshire Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (NHESGR) Committee for his...

Lights, Camera, Commencement

The first woman to direct an animated feature film for Walt Disney Animation Studios, Academy Award®-winner Jennifer Lee, will deliver UNH's commencement address Saturday, May 17, 2014. In March, Lee...

Thompson School Makes A Difference to Aspiring Businessman

Naithan Couse’s company, Make a Difference Landscaping, runs seven landscaping crews and each has its own specialty: mowing, construction, irrigation and lighting, and general maintenance. With 18...

Finding Her Perfect Balance

From the ages of 14 to 18, Emily Quigley lived in the New Hampshire Foster Care System and was a resident for a while at the Dover Children’s Home in Dover, N.H. After earning a high school...

And The Oscar Goes To...

Oscar winner Jennifer (Rebecchi) Lee '92 flanked by Chris Buck (l) and Peter Del Vecho (r) at the 86th annual Academy Awards. Photo by Jason LaVeris/GettyImages.

Research Makes a Difference

New research from Plymouth State University and the University of New Hampshire indicates that collecting and bleeding horseshoe crabs for biomedical purposes causes short-term changes in their...

American History Rocks in Manchester

Whether he is inspiring students in his classes about the 1960s through the prism of popular culture and social movements, making a lasting scholarly contribution to the field of American history as...

Community Activist Jim Burchell ’80 Continues to Give Back

Jim Burchell at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a water project that brought piped potable water to homes in a Regadio neighborhood for the first time since the people started living there 80 years ago...

Most of Us Have Made Best Memories by Age 25

By the time most people are 25, they have made the most important memories of their lives, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire. Researchers at UNH have found that when...

“Bots” Build Teamwork

L to r, Christopher Barr and Tyler Fausnacht cut an acrylic tube for the UNH-ROV.

FIRST Class

Flying balls, scoring goals, and cheering teammates are no strangers to UNH’s Lundholm Gym. But motors, circuit breakers, and robots? Not so much. Except on March 6 and 7, when more than 1,000 teens...

Coming Up Roses

Erica Johnson in her element at the Macfarlane Greenhouse Facility

Parents Association Awards 2014

ET SwarmCats

Mr. Personality

It's a big job to establish an ability or intelligence," says Jack Mayer, psychology professor and author of Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives." Being...

Pathway to Work

Julia Heinlein opened Vanish Laser Studio in Portsmouth on Jan. 3, 2014, with help from the NH Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC) as part of the state’s new Pathway to Work program. When...

Luna Tunes

Artist's rendition of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the moon. The CRaTER telescope is seen pointing out at the bottom right center of the LRO spacecraft. Illustration by Chris Meaney/NASA You...

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At the Heart of Medicine

During the summer following his freshman year, Andrew Phinney ’14 held an internship with the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, NY. He spent...

UNH Historian Recounts Effort to Regulate Whaling Industry in New Book

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves attempted to create an international regulatory...

Meredith Cline ’15

Business Administration Andover, N.H. “One of the smallest towns in the history of the world.” -MC What made you want to choose this course of study?